WELCOME to my Sixth Grade Website!
AN IMPORTANT REMINDER: Please remember that Wednesdays are late-start days and students will
not begin classes until 10:10 a.m. Dismissal time remains the same, at 3:20 each day. On
Wednesday mornings, Northwood staff members will be in meetings and staff development,
planning and working together to help all of our students be successful.
I hope that you find what you need on my website! If you have questions or concerns, please send
me an email, or call the school office at 263-8433 and leave a message for me!
I look forward to working with my students and their families as we begin an exciting new year of
learning!
A NOTE ABOUT SIXTH GRADE MATH:
Sixth grade often marks the beginning of middle school, which means more difficult classes and
higher expectations. It is this grade level that students truly begin to form study skills and habits.
Therefore, it is increasingly important for parents of sixth grade children to monitor their kids'
math work. Sixth grade math blends many concepts including:
• Multiplication and division of fractions
• Least common multiples; greatest common divisors
• Algebraic expressions and equations
• Graphing of algebraic results
• Geometric patterns
• The use of angles, range, mean, median, mode, statistical analysis of sample populations
• Use of probabilities to make predictions.
Sixth grade math teachers help their students understand these concepts through various word
and computation problems. These problems are much like those from earlier grades but tend to be
larger questions with more complicated operations or equations.
• Jenny bought seven t-shirts, one for each brother. The shirts cost $9.95 each.
The cashier charged an additional $5.23 in sales tax. Jenny left the store with $15.12.
How much money did she arrive with?
• Ralph had 5 math tests. He received the following scores on the tests: 80, 75, 86, 91,
and 82. What is Ralph's mean math test score?
• Give the range of these numbers: 45, 82, 13, 56, 73, 11, 27?
from
http://math-and-reading-help-for-kids.org/articles/Children%27s_Math%3A_Grades_3-8.html
